Holistic food systems education is essential for inciting early passion and critical thinking on how to solve food systems problems. This capstone engages in the process of developing and integrating food systems lessons into core high school courses, without detracting from the core course curriculum. This project aims to equip high school students with the ability to engage in critical thinking about food systems, develop resilience through food...

Offers training and nutrition guidelines for runners looking to overcome the metabolic and nutritional barriers, known as "the wall," and succeed at distance running.

As cities in the United States seek to understand their local and regional food systems, reliable data and those food systems become more and more important. Cities and food policy councils across the United States collection, analyze, and publish food systems data. There are widely varying ways of doing this, and widely varying sets of collected data. Data visualizations enable people to tell stories, which help decision-makers, governments, and...

St. Petersburg, Florida, like many populous cities throughout the country, has slowly seen its agricultural activities pushed outside of city limits. For St. Petersburg however, these actions started very early on in the city's history. St. Petersburg's zoning and city regulations have long supported tourism, real estate growth and development, placing a heavy reliance on outside sources to provide food and agriculture to the community. The concern...

In 2006, over 90% of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal waters were listed as impaired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency due to low dissolved oxygen levels and/or poor water clarity related to nutrient pollution. Nearly half of the total nutrient input to the bay is a result of nonpoint source pollution from the nine million acres of farmland within its 64,000 square mile watershed. In order to protect both the Chesapeake Bay and the region's...